Bangkalan

Also known as Bangkalan District

thumb|upright=1.4|Double-page from the Qur'an manuscript from Bangkalan, made c. 1900. [[Art Gallery of South Australia]] Bangkalan (Madurese: Bhângkalan, pronunciation: [ɓɤŋ.ka.lan]) is a town on the western coast of Madura Island in Indonesia, the government seat of the Bangkalan Regency.

Key facts

Settlement.name: Bangkalan
Settlement.settlement_type: Town
Settlement.pushpin_map: Indonesia_Java#Indonesia
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location in Java and Indonesia
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: Indonesia
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Region
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Java
Settlement.subdivision_type2: Province
Settlement.subdivision_name2: East Java
Settlement.subdivision_type3: Regency
Settlement.subdivision_name3: Bangkalan Regency
Settlement.area_total_km2: 35.02
Settlement.population_total: 89550
Settlement.population_density_km2: auto
Settlement.population_as_of: mid 2023 estimate
Settlement.timezone: IWST
Settlement.utc_offset: +7

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

4 sections

Contents

Tourism
Suramadu Bridge to Java
Climate
References

==Tourism== Mount Jaddih is 10 kilometres from Bangkalan and can be accessed by a motorcycle to the mountain top to see Bangkalan town and Suramadu Bridge. The 500-hectare limestone hill of Mount Jaddih also offers a spring-water swimming pool for free. Other objects of interest to tourists near Bangkalan are a lighthouse from the Dutch colonial era (15 kilometers), Rongkang Beach (20 kilometers), and the religious site of Mount Geger (60 kilometers).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bangkalan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.